Prabhupāda: Overloaded.
Dhīra-kṛṣṇa: When we take your books on the library party to the professors at the universities, sometimes they think . . .
Śrutakīrti: This way? Śrīla Prabhupāda, Śrīla Prabhupāda . . . (break)
Prabhupāda: I am surprised how I have written so many, what to speak of them? (laughter) It is all Kṛṣṇa's mercy.
Dhīra-kṛṣṇa: One professor the other day was trying to convince one of our boys that you were coming in the disciplic succession and were authorized to translate all these books.
Prabhupāda: Yes, that is right.
Dhīra-kṛṣṇa: Because he was dressed, and he didn't know that he was your disciple, so he was saying, "Bhaktivedanta Swami, he is coming in a disciplic line straight from Kṛṣṇa. That's why he can speak on all these books."
Prabhupāda: Yes, that is a fact. That authority I have got. That's a fact.
- yasya deve parā bhaktir
- yathā deve tathā gurau
- tasyaite kathitā hy arthāḥ
- prakaśānte
- (ŚU 6.23)
They become manifest, all the meanings of the Vedic literature. Yasya deve parā bhaktiḥ. (aside:) Don't come very near. Hare Kṛṣṇa.
(break) . . .explaining last evening: don't speculate; hear. That is the qualification. All others, they are simply speculating. How long their energy will go on, limited energy? How speculating will help them? It is not possible. It is condemned.
- athāpi te deva. . . te deva padāmbuja-dvaya
- prasāda-leśānugṛhīta eva hi
- jānāti tattvaṁ . . .
- na cānyaeko 'pi ciraṁ vicinvan
- (SB 10.14.29)
Ciraṁ vicinvan, speculating for millions of years, one cannot understand. Athāpi te deva padāmbuja-dvaya-prasāda-leśānugṛhīta eva hi: "One who has received a little mercy of the lotus feet of the Lord, he can understand the truth. Others, even speculating for millions of years, they cannot understand anything." The speculation business is useless in spiritual advance. It may help Darwin to come to the conclusion that man is born from monkey. Because he is from monkey, he thinks others also from monkey. He has admitted that whatever he has given, it is simply a speculation. He has admitted. And all others also speculating. They are trying to manufacture life from chemicals, but they do not know that life is never manufactured; it is already there. Just like this grass is coming. The life is already there. In favorable circumstances it comes out. Udbhija. This is called udbhija. Similarly, fermentation.